Web

“And the app store in some ways was an enormous threat to the web. Like it took people away from the web. It was probably one of the biggest, between it and Facebook were like the two biggest forces that really made the web less interesting.”

“I think now putting things on back on the web and then making sure that they're accessible across the different AI systems in a way that makes sense for creators and make sure that creators get compensated is going to be something which actually I think will r…”

“AI itself isn't a new platform. So when you think about new platforms like that used to be new mobile game councils, but you know, the web and the web in a browser was a new platform and mobile was a new platform. We all move into a place of discovery where we…”

“That for a long time, since about 2015 the web is kind of plateaued. There were not, there were more websites that were being shut down than were being created during that time. In the last 18 months though we're back to the web growing at a rate which is, is …”

“The chat bot is going to be the place where you're going to want to direct most of your interactions With the web, with the internet, with information online, with computing.”

“The web isn't going away in its current form, but it will be, it will have a sibling of kind of agent first web, and I'm excited to see that develop.”

“And right now is like an amazing time for computers. Like one of the most amazing times since the web back in the late nineties or mid nineties, really.”

“Because the organizing layer of the web you know, I always say, like, there's no such thing as the open web. There's the Google web. And just because they just dominated it.”

“Agentic browsing totally destroys the economics of The web.”

“The web is the ultimate software platform. Like everything should go on the web.”

“I think just so much of the web actually became less trustworthy or just overly SEO optimized or just unusable that people are actually just excited that there's something that cleanly gives you an answer that's at least seemingly or is fairly accurate, so.”

“I think it is probably even more multimodal, multi-format. Like I would certainly expect video to continue to grow. I would certainly expect audio and not just, you know, text with some images to grow.”

“The thing I'd add is, I think the web will be much bigger. I think I think there will be, I think the other thing that we haven't talked much about, I think this moment will also lower the barrier for creation of content.”

“I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that Chrome kept the web alive. As a viable platform for applications.”

“We believe that AIs will use the web a thousand X, a million X, more than humans ever have. And as a result, The web will need to transform.”

“I think that's the same ethos we're taking at parallel, which is like, I think we want the web to be open, and we want it to be permissionless, and we want it to be a free market, and we want everyone to have access to everything, including AIs. We want AIs to…”

“I think there is a existential risk on the web that the web might close up more and more unless we figure out and solve problems in a way that incentivizes This data to remain open, and it must be optimal for most people for putting their content, their ideas,…”

“One of the best ways to get information or like learn things is to post random shit on the web and let people correct you. Because people will spend an infinite amount of effort correcting.”

“I think that there are going to be, ah, you know, the web is already pretty long tail, ah, and there's a massive power law, so I feel like the power law is going to get even more skewed. That is very obvious.”

“From 1993 to 1996, the web grew from 130 sites to more than 600,000. And if you compute that rate of growth over that four-year period, it is 723% growth year over year for four years.”

“I think the web will evolve to have this hyper personalized experience. It's probably going to start with search.”

“I do think the web, I think in nearer term, the web is going to change quite a lot if you think about an agent first web. Like, does it really need to, you know, it doesn't necessarily need to see renders and things like we do as humans using the web, so I thi…”

“A lot of the voice-first consumer products that we are seeing working actually are on mobile versus web because it's easier and more natural to talk into your phone for language learning or for companionship or other use cases than it is to maybe talk into you…”

“And same with homework helper apps. Like, those are really blowing up on mobile as compared to web.”

“If we can build the right agent experience around the web, that will make it possible again to build really wild and creative experiences, but still allow any person interacting with them that also have agents helping them to interact in whatever way they want…”

“I think that we're going to end up with probably a kind of, Economics model where agents talk to other agents and negotiate things between themselves and then give you back the results, right? And you will have the service providers with agents as well that ar…”

“So personally, I wouldn't say the web is posted with synthetic data. Maybe it's even making it more rich.”

“I also don't know how long the web survives it, because when you take away the business model, right, it will collapse.”

“If you look at every other platform that's ever existed, that's been an important capability of every platform that's ever Succeeded in a meaningful way. You know, Windows can build Windows apps. Macs can build Mac apps. The web does not have a built-in wa…”

“I think in the next few years, we're going to see more AI agents surfing the web for people than we'll have people surfing the web.”

“Travel really lends itself to sale on the web because there are no physical goods. There's lots of product description and images required. It's just the perfect thing to sell online.”

“I think in the next few years, we're going to see more AI agents surfing the web. Then people surfing the web”

“But like, just as an example, the web, and when it was originally conceived, didn't have images.”

“I do think that one of the concerns I have about the web in the long run is with machine generated content. I'm not confident that the web improves. Maybe it stays the same. Maybe it declines slightly, but for a lot of these technologies, we need the web and w…”

“I think that there is, I think that originality and newness is, is a real thing. And I think that there's a lot that people can bring to bear. I think that some of what you're saying will happen. But I don't think it's going to overall be the overarching trend…”

“If it actually works, the strategic brilliance of that is they instantly have the world's largest app store because the world's largest app store is just the web, right?”

“There is a version of AI that the web gets filled with spam and, you know, everything. I think that will happen and it doesn't matter because ultimately what we're looking for is that discernment, that quality.”

“The thing that we want to accomplish with the web is that we want to make it truly an AI driven web where when you go to a website, you get a copy of that page that is just for you generated just in time. And it knows it has all this context about what you wan…”

“I think that the future of the web and future of digital interactions in general will be that you just ask your AI. I think everybody is going to have a personal AI, and what you really want is to make sure that it is aligned with your interests, on your team,…”

“If the web made the cost of distribution essentially free for businesses, what AI is doing now is AI is making the cost of cognition essentially free.”

“And you know, the other thing is that quite soon it will have the ability to access real time content in the web. So it'll be able to, you know, sort of look up the weather and news and Other kind of fresh content like sports results or provide citations and, …”

“This is all happening so much more quickly than previous changes like the web or iPhones did.”

“In 1995, the web attracted more than 100,000 retailers. Which I would not have guessed that happened until, like, Shopify, but apparently that happened in 1985, with some spending more than a million dollars each on eye-popping sites. Yet worldwide retail sale…”

“And that's exactly where we are today with Metaverse and Web Free and blockchain.”

“So there's this strong evolutionary Force, this gradient forcing compatibility on the web. This is something a lot of people in computer science, especially programming languages, just hate because it means you really can't make incompatible changes except v…”

“Every 10 years or so. You just get people holding the web back. Usually it's a monopoly power or a market power. And then the upstart comes because people still use the web.”

“The tech industry has sort of had one of these central agendas sort of every 15 years or so for the last, you know, probably since the sixties. So mainframes are the center of the tech industry from the sixties through to the seventies, then the PC from the mi…”

“After a certain amount of posting, after a certain, if something you do reaches out to a certain number of people, there's some sort of charge attached.”

“Freeware has been a devastating thing. It did a wonderful job of building the web. I love freeware, but the cost of it, social costs is enormous.”

“The companies that will end up building massive standalone businesses here will figure out how to leverage the uniqueness of AR and VR and iOS and web and Android to give multiple viewers different viewing perspectives and interactions with the same content.”

“Him and then also the academics and other people who made DNS, for example, like the fact that it was permissionless, the fact that a hobbyist in a university could be on sort of level playing field with Disney on the web, right?”

“Bill Gates wrote a book in 1995 called The Road Ahead predicting what's gonna happen in the future of 95. This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right? T…”

“It was easier for platforms to build a network, I would argue, on mobile more than web.”

“So we're going to be seeing in the future blockchain applications, and blockchain applications do not need the web. They go and attach themselves directly on the internet.”

“So we could argue that the web as it is today 20 plus years after its first commercialization has become a bit too, too centralized for our liking.”

“So just about every version of anything that we see today on the web will have and might have a version of a decentralized version of it.”

“So when I think about the failure of the web as the platform, it's because it's so heavy. It's because, you know, ad blockers are in ascendancy because the web is so slow for most of the world that we don't have sensitivity to that. And so when it comes to ide…”

“Facebook, those are push channels, whereas the web is a pull channel.”

“And then you layer any discovery mechanism that you lay onto that works until you try and encompass the whole of the web, and then it just collapses under its own weight.”

“Because those have existed in newspapers for, you know, decades, it's considered ok, but then, you know, you have slidey things, and lists, and everything else, and because it's new, it's like, oh god, the web is destroying western culture.”